Christer Bothén

Christer Bothén is a Swedish composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, born in Gothenburg in 1941 and based in Stockholm. He plays bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, the donso n'goni (the hunter's harp of the Wassoulou region of Mali) and the guimbri. He has been a figure of Swedish jazz and improvised music since the 1970s, and he is known for his work with Don Cherry, whom he taught to play the donso n'goni. Bothén studied the donso n'goni in Mali in 1971-72 and took up the guimbri in Marrakesh later in the decade.